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5Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis_; Boethii Daci aliorumque sophismata _ Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, _Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis_ _, edited by Sten Ebbesen, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2019, pp. 407, ISBN: 9788773044247, DKK 150,00 (pb); _ _Boethii Daci aliorumque sophismata_ , edited by Sten Ebbesen and Irène Rosier-Catach, Copenhagen, Narayan Press, 2021, pp. 624, ISBN: 978-87-7533-053-9, DKK 370,00 (pb) (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-4. forthcoming.Editions of difficult, obscure Latin philosophical texts from the Middle Ages rarely receive reviews in general History of Philosophy journals. An exception might be made for an important new editi...
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Ernest Renan and Averroism : the story of a misinterpretationIn Anna Akasoy & Guido Giglioni (eds.), Renaissance Averroism and its aftermath: Arabic philosophy in early modern Europe, Springer. 2013.
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37European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 1991.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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William of ChampeauxIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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8Alan of LilleIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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2Gilbert of PoitiersIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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2Peter AbelardIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Logic Metaphysics Ethics Philosophy of religion Abelard's place in medieval philosophy.
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5Abelard's Concept of Natural LawIn Albert Zimmermann & Andreas Speer (eds.), Mensch und Natur im Mittelalter, 2. Halbbd, De Gruyter. pp. 609-621. 1991.
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13Introduction: Special Issue on the Twelfth-Century Logical SchoolsVivarium 60 (2-3): 113-136. 2022.This special issue grew out of a small conference The Known & the Unknown: Exploring Twelfth-Century Philosophy, which was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, hosted by the Saxo Institute, and held at the University of Copenhagen in April 2018. Its central topic was the many, mostly unexplored, commentaries on Aristotle, Boethius, and Porphyry that constitute the key textual evidence for a fascinating phenomenon that, although it played a pivotal role in the philosophical revival of Western Euro…Read more
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7Pagans and philosophers: the problem of paganism from Augustine to LeibnizPrinceton University Press. 2015.Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers—philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci—tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the diff…Read more
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The selfIn Margaret Cameron (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Routledge. 2018.
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15Ockham on ConceptsRoutledge. 2004.William of Ockham is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue among scholars in the last decade, and this book presents a full discussion of recent developments. Claude Panaccio proposes a richly documented and entirely original reinterpretation of Ockham's theory of concepts as a coherent blend of representationalism, conceptual atomism, and non reductionist nominalism, stre…Read more
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30Why Study Medieval Philosophy?In Marcel Ackeren, Theo Kobusch & Jörn Müller (eds.), Warum Noch Philosophie?: Historische, Systematische Und Gesellschaftliche Positionen, De Gruyter. pp. 65-78. 2011.
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19The Problem of Universals from Boethius to John of Salisbury by Roberto PinzaniJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1): 170-171. 2020.Roberto Pinzani has written a closely-argued, highly original, valuable but difficult book. The Problem of Universals, indeed, is—and has been for nearly two centuries—the most frequently treated topic in medieval philosophy, and solutions to it proposed by two of the philosophers discussed here, Boethius and Abelard, have been examined countless times. But no one has before tried to cover the whole period, from circa 500 to circa 1150, looking in detail at a whole variety of writers. Moreover, …Read more
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13Les relacions en la filosofia llatina medieval primerenca: contra el relat estàndardEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 61 41-58. 2018.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v61-marenbon.
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The Logical Textbooks and Topical ReasoningIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Discusses Boethius's logical monographs: his treatises on division, on categorical syllogisms, and most importantly, his works on the theory of topical argument and on hypothetical syllogisms. The theory of topics, as developed in late antiquity and known almost entirely through Boethius, concerns the devising of arguments that rest on obvious general principles but are not, in their basic formulation, formally valid deductions. In his work on hypothetical syllogisms, Boethius seems to take acco…Read more
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The Opuscula SacraIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Gives detailed analyzes of Boethius’ five short theological treatises. In particular, it examines the use of Aristotelian physics in the treatise written against the Nestorian and Monophysite views on Christology, the discussion of how far Aristotle's Categories can be used in talking about God and in analyzing the Trinity, and the ontological scheme, and argument about abstraction set out in Treatise III. Boethius is presented as an important innovator in theological method.
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The ConsolationIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Addresses the argument of Boethius's masterpiece, the Consolation of Philosophy. It shows that Boethius, the author, juxtaposes a complex view of happiness in which it is vulnerable to fortune, with a monolithic view in which it is identified with the highest good – God. It also considers the treatment of divine providence and how it can be reconciled with the existence of chance and with human freedom.
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The Consolation, V.3–6In Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Devoted to a detailed discussion of Boethius's later treatment, at the end of the Consolation of Philosophy, of the problem of divine prescience and human free will. It analyzes Boethius's conception of eternity and argues that it need not involve timelessness: what is important, rather, is that God lives in an eternal present. It argues that Boethius was blind to the distinctions of scope within propositions that many later thinkers saw as the heart of the problem of prescience.
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Life, Intellectual Milieu, and WorksIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Examines Boethius's life in Italy at the time of Theoderic the Ostrogoth. It presents his background and intellectual milieu, along with the four main traditions on which he draws: Greek Neoplatonism, Latin philosophical writing, Greek Christian literature and the Latin church fathers. In addition, the chapter briefly discusses Boethius’ treatises on Music and Arithmetic.
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Interpreting the ConsolationIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.After looking at the verse in the Consolation of Philosophy and other more literary aspects of it, this chapter proposes an interpretation of the work as a whole, which takes account of the fact that it is a prosimetrum – a genre in which the claims of learning were often challenged. Boethius, the chapter argues, regards philosophy with great respect, but considers it limited when it comes to providing a comprehensive and coherent understanding of the order of things. The differing attitudes of …Read more
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Boethius's Influence in the Middle AgesIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Examines the vast influence of Boethius in the Middle Ages, in logic, theology, and through the Consolation of Philosophy – in philosophy more broadly – and in literature. Among the authors discussed are Abelard, William of Conches, Gilbert of Poitiers, Alan of Lille, Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Chaucer.
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Boethius's ProjectIn Boethius, Oxford University Press. 2003.Examines Boethius's translations of logical texts by Aristotle and Porphyry, and his commentaries on them. It sets out Boethius's interpretation of the Aristotelian Categories, his response to the Problem of Universals, his semantics, and his first answer to the problem of free will and divine prescience. It argues that Boethius made an important decision to go against the trend of logical commentary in his period and return to Porphyry's strongly Aristotelian approach.
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Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the international conference at Cambridge 8-11 April 1994 organized by the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (2): 369-370. 1997.
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23Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press UK. 2016.For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian Europe, and is instead one of the most exciting and diversified periods in the history of thought.Introducing the coexisting strands of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish philosophy, Marenbon shows how the…Read more
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8Aquinas: Selected Philosophical WritingsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 36 (4): 495-496. 1996.
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